Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 10:14

14 And there was no day like that , before it, or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the LORD fought for Israel .

To wit, In those parts of the World of which he here speaks, and about which the Comparison is here made: vain therefore is that Objection, that the days are longer near the Northern and Southern Poles, where they are constantly longer at certain seasons, and that by the order of nature; whereas the length of this day was purely contingent, and granted by God in answer to Ioshua's Prayer, as is here added. Obj. In Hezekiah's time, and at his Prayer there was a day which may seem to have been longer; for the Sun went backward ten Degrees in ten hours, and then returned again ten Degrees in ten hours, and so it was 20. hours longer than a common day, and so longer than this. Ans. It is not certain, either that each Degree designed an hour, and not rather half an hour, or a quarter, as others think; or that the Sun returned those ten Degrees as slowly as he went down before or after. Besides, it was now near Summer Solstice, when the day was longest, and about 14. hours; and that being doubled, the artificial day was 28. hours: and because there is not the least evidence that Hezekiahs day was longer, but rather of the contrary; it is much more reasonable to believe this Scripture-assertion, than to deny or question upon meer Suppositions or idle Conjectures.

To wit, in such a manner to alter the Course of nature, and of the heavenly Bodies, that a man might have more time to pursue and destroy his Enemies.

This is added as the reason why God was so ready to answer Ioshua's Petition herein, because he was engaged and resolved to fight for Israel, and that in [illegible: 1+ letters] more than ordinary manner.